Kabalevsky Complete Preludes

Preludes à la russe from a model Soviet composer

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky

Genre:

Instrumental

Label: Naxos

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 77

Mastering:

Stereo
DDD

Catalogue Number: 8 570976

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(4) Preludes, Movement: A minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(4) Preludes, Movement: C Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(4) Preludes, Movement: B minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(4) Preludes, Movement: A Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: C Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: A minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: G Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: E minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: D Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: B minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: A Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: F sharp minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: E Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: C sharp minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: B Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: G sharp minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: F sharp Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: E flat minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: D flat Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: B flat minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: A flat Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: F minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: E flat Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: C minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: B flat Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: G minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: F Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(24) Preludes, Movement: D minor Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(6) Preludes and Fugues, Movement: G: A summer morning on the lawn Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(6) Preludes and Fugues, Movement: C: Becoming a Young Pioneer Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(6) Preludes and Fugues, Movement: E minor: An evening song beyond the river Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(6) Preludes and Fugues, Movement: A: At the Young Pioneer Summer Camp Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(6) Preludes and Fugues, Movement: C minor: The story of a hero Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
(6) Preludes and Fugues, Movement: F: A Feast of Labour Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Alexandre Dossin, Piano
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, Composer
Kabalevsky’s three sets of piano Preludes live up to expectations – or down to them, depending on your point of view. The early group of four are the work of a talented student – composition with Myaskovsky, piano with Goldenweiser – at that time highly influenced by mid-period Scriabin. Their effective keyboard layout is developed in the Op 38 set of 24 Preludes composed in 1943-44, where it substitutes somewhat for musical inventiveness, or at least for originality. By this stage Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov and Russian folk material are all in the mix, though Kabalevsky’s textures are blunter and more blatant. With the six Preludes and Fugues of 1958-59 we are in the world of thoroughly dumbed-down Socialist Realism, for all the world as though Kabalevsky were showing Shostakovich how a fugue could actually achieve such a dubious and improbable aim (this was precisely the time when he was flexing his secretarial muscles to thwart the re-staging of Lady Macbeth).

If these pieces as a whole were intended as fodder for young players on their way to more serious musical demands, they could be held up as worthwhile models. Not that they are by any means entirely straightforward. Alexandre Dossin brings his muscular technique to bear with impressive results, and the no-frills Naxos recording is adequate. As a document of the shallows of Soviet piano music, this is a useful issue.

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